Research
AI that Africa can trust
I work on the question underneath everything else: how do we make artificial intelligence reliable for the languages, classrooms, and information ecosystems of this continent?
Research areas
Six threads, one fabric
Each area stands alone as a research problem. Together they point at trustworthy, useful AI for education and information.
Large Language Models
How LLMs behave, and misbehave, in low-resource settings: prompting, evaluation, and adaptation for contexts the training data underrepresents.
Fact Verification
Systems that check claims against reliable sources, so that the answer to "is this true?" can be automated, auditable, and fast.
Fake News Detection
Detecting misinformation with LLMs in the places it spreads fastest, like social feeds and messaging apps, where traditional fact-checking can't keep up.
Educational AI
AI that helps students learn and teachers teach: tutoring, assessment, and feedback designed for real classrooms, not just benchmarks.
Translation Models
Machine translation and language technology for African languages, so the next generation of AI doesn't exclude hundreds of millions of speakers.
Responsible AI
Deploying AI in high-stakes settings (education, information) with the safeguards, transparency, and humility those settings demand.
Open problems
Questions I keep returning to
If you're working on any of these, we should talk.
- 01
How do you verify claims in languages and contexts with almost no digitized reference data?
- 02
What does effective AI tutoring look like in a classroom of fifty students and one teacher?
- 03
How should misinformation detection work inside closed messaging apps, where content can't be observed centrally?
- 04
Can small, affordable models deliver trustworthy answers where connectivity and compute are constrained?
- 05
How do you measure learning outcomes well enough to know whether educational AI actually helps?
Experiments & open source
Research you can run
Working code beats working papers. These are public.
Researching something adjacent?
I collaborate with researchers, students, and labs working on AI for education, verification, and African languages.